[A. Cemal Ekin] over on PetaPixel reviewed the Apexel 200X LED Microscope Lens. The relatively inexpensive accessory promises to transform your cell phone camera into a microscope. Of course ...

“You don’t have to put in these copper wires [for phone lines] anymore; you have the [cell] towers. It’s big business,” says bioengineer Daniel Fletcher of the University of California, Berkeley, who ...

These are stained samples of pollen (left images) and plant stems (right two images). Top row: commercial microscope. Bottom row: cell phone microscope. Z. J. Smith ...